Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 3

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• Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Science, Impossible Things, Done

  "The Rolling Stones". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1952.

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• Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Trust, Secrecy, Tyranny

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.325, Penguin

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• There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Thinking, Political

  "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress". Novel by Robert A. Heinlein, 1966.

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• The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Freedom, Democracy, Opinion

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• Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  Time Enough for Love "Prelude II" (1973)

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• A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Democracy, Wonderful, Responsible

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• You do not truly own anything that you can't carry in both arms at a dead run

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Arms

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• Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Technology, Engineering, People

  Robert A. Heinlein (1985). “Job, a Comedy of Justice”, Del Rey

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• The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom. That's a personal evaluation, of course.

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  Fighting, Police, Stronger

  Robert A. Heinlein (1960). “Beyond This Horizon”, Roc

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• No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fake, Psychology, Matter

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.112, Penguin

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• The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Battle, Price Of Freedom, Willingness

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• What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Self, Safety, Democracy

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• There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

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  Badass, Preparation, Luck

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Have Space Suit, Will Travel”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Political, Politics, Strategy

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• Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Long, Cost

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• There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

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  Song, Pain, Believe

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin

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• What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stars, Truth, Thinking

  Time Enough for Love (p. 264)

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• Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Hurt, Lying, Religion

  "Time Enough for Love". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1973.

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• Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Believe, Religion, Worship

  Robert A. Heinlein (1985). “Job, a Comedy of Justice”, Del Rey

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• The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Use, Share, Figures

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• The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Humour, Prove, Collections

  "The Number of the Beast". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, Chapter XXXVIII, p. 377, 1980.

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• Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Learning, Math, Shoes

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Dirty, Men, Special

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.236, Penguin

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• Love is what still goes on when you're not horny.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Friendship, Love Is, Horny

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• Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Friendship, Peace, Hate

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.224, Penguin

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